NCR Development Environment | Bob Wood | Activity https://dev.ncrocketry.club/members/bob-wood/activity/ Activity feed for Bob Wood. Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:16:29 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d438a9a7d0db02d7eb12bbbdb4625bfd Bob Wood replied to the topic "Lost Kestral" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17445/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:48 -0600 This bird was found last month in just about the exact location I thought it should be, which I had scoured in June.  Amazing how easy it is to find a lost rocket when the grass has dried up and…   Read more»

]]> 0616604611507833137aa90e68c9b20e Bob Wood replied to the topic "vent hole" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17309/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:28 -0600 Are you using shear pins?  What is your expected maximum altitude with this bird? Supersonic flight?  Any other significant mass objects in the nose?I've not often vented payload bays, as I do use shear pins more often that not.  I…   Read more»

]]> 4027fbf46c34374b214e7f3c6f04684d Bob Wood replied to the topic "Fractional 1010 rail (a.k.a.: 1050 rail)" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17299/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:27 -0600 Well, now we have an 8' length of 1050 🙂

]]> f5a212249d8256d6592664887daa34a7 Bob Wood replied to the topic "Right angle lens" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17286/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:25 -0600 The HTC RE camera looks like an interesting device ….http://www.htc.com/us/re/re-camera/ 

]]> e8151e8ca0c6ca860a3da3b82585258d Bob Wood replied to the topic "Right angle lens" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17285/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:25 -0600 Very nice Doug. Thank you for all the photos!I recently was introduced to a ~$100 camera that looks like a periscope. It’s small, high video rate, remotely managed via cell phone, and looks like it will mount into a ~1″…   Read more»

]]> 1afb1deb0258482b63c94a01b24dfb54 Bob Wood replied to the topic "Right angle lens" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/17280/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:21:24 -0600 The video is nice. The link to the image you note in your first response is bustified. Would you please re-post?Are you mounting the cowl to a GoPro camera body, or to a housing (to avail yourself of various mounting…   Read more»

]]> 80e494cf42ad0b275892b2d5eb38fc04 Bob Wood replied to the topic "Nose cone weight" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/15999/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:18:21 -0600 Thanx Bear. I’m thinking this is the easiest approach, even if it doesn’t readily allow one to dial in the weight at the launch – one can just set for worst case (largest) motor.

]]> 052b2c0777801647b9168f40e7a5f500 Bob Wood replied to the topic "54mm CTI Al Threaded Forward Closure" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/15113/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:16:11 -0600 Thanx Ken – the Kestrel is exactly what I am working on …T-nuts work well for a number of rocket things. In a minimum diameter rocket, I’m find there is just enuf clearance between airframe and motor casing to use…   Read more»

]]> 968eb13d9ba321cfba08af327cc05be5 Bob Wood replied to the topic "54mm CTI Al Threaded Forward Closure" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/15111/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:16:11 -0600 Let me poke at this a bit ..If for example I thread a bolt through a tapped (or heli-coiled) flash hole, this seals the forward closure, so I’m not sure how exhaust would shoot up into the bird, provided that…   Read more»

]]> bd79a0dac2104a3758230dd9a68910d7 Bob Wood replied to the topic "54mm CTI Al Threaded Forward Closure" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/15109/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:16:11 -0600 Yep, I guess epoxy comes to the rescue again, doesn’t it. Maybe even at the flight line. It would be interesting to pull test an eyebolt to see how strong such a joint would be.I guess the other option along…   Read more»

]]> 4e4ea054e127ef3a7e3cabdf2eadcdb1 Bob Wood replied to the topic "t-mobile device?" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/14844/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:15:33 -0600 Bear, what was that doohickey transmitter device you pulled out of your pocket at the NCR launch yesterday?

]]> c55d01756557c08ec82ab1e8a456b13d Bob Wood posted a new topic "Lost Little John at Rocktoberfest" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2367/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:47 -0600 4″ Madcow kit.  Olive drab with “US ARMY” decal.  Straight launch until about 4000′, then heeled over into the wind (from the SSE) and disappeared.  Should have gone to ~ 5500′.  Walked the areas North of the flight line both…   Read more»

]]> 260c4021143d37396fa809d8080a6e2a Bob Wood posted a new topic "Lost Kestral" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2360/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:46 -0600 At MHM last month, I believe the air frame did not separate at apogee, and the bird came in hot.  Main deployed at ~ 800′ and the harness failed.  I found the nosecone and main chute about 600 yards South…   Read more»

]]> 8c58bdf0891aa1e7ae63fb49d56f2751 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Scott Corliss" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2333/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:44 -0600 I believe we lost Scott Corliss in a fall on Longs Peak this past weekend …http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/03/greeley-doctor-fall-longs-peak/  

]]> b8a64ed9d4f8335b02c54a3005c8a740 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Lost Mini-Tomach" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2318/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:41 -0600 6/4/2016, Pawnee North site, South side of the launch area, ~ 1/2 way to the road.It is a 38mm bird, 42.5″ long, painted White.  24″ Red Chute.  RRC3 Flight Controller on a custom 3D printed sled.  Thx in advance!  …. Bob

]]> a51aef6b834e7560e7da61165462174c Bob Wood posted a new topic "Flight Simulation" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2298/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:39 -0600 I've been building a rocket simulation “package” from scratch (1st principles), and would like to ask for some volunteers to provide me with rocket design specifics so that I can run some sims and have you confirm whether my results…   Read more»

]]> c88fd42ad6d117ec8255099e6e893eb0 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Fractional 1010 rail (a.k.a.: 1050 rail)" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2234/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:34 -0600 Do we have any fractional 1010 rails, i.e.: with one T-slot and a 1″ x1/2″ profile? Thx!

]]> 45a2886a2f59a10b813bd96c1a03d5e4 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Shear Modulus" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2233/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:34 -0600 Ay opinions on the correct value to use for G10 shear modulus in fin flutter equations?I note some decent discrepancies between values used by Zachary Howard (c/o Apogee and their article on fin flutter speeds), values used by Duncan McDonald…   Read more»

]]> 9c3736d0e936d66fc59c44b637603cfd Bob Wood posted a new topic "Right angle lens" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2230/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:34 -0600 Any design ideas for how to best mount a GoPro in an avy bay, pointing directly out through the airframe wall, with a mirror or mirrored prism to direct the field of view earthward?I am really looking for a lens…   Read more»

]]> 97a0aed295b6f362c01627d06afbfdaf Bob Wood posted a new topic "Article on Frank Malina in IEEE Spectrum this month" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2207/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:32 -0600 Arguably, THE pioneer of American Rocketry//spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/frank-malina-americas-forgotten-rocketeer

]]> 935d1783859c922ef128e988242d03d0 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Basilisk Rocksim file?" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/2190/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:30 -0600 I am looking for a Rocksim file for a Hawk Mountain Basilisk Dual Deploy. Any leads appreciated!

]]> c359cbd6a005f80f01b5c86d94bb4db6 Bob Wood posted a new topic "Nose cone weight" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/1912/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:45:05 -0600 A quick one I trust …What is being used out there for weighting nose cones? Lead shot and expanding 2-part urethane foam? Wads of modeling clay? Bunch ‘o fender washers wrapped in duct tape?I’m building a Hawk Mountain Jumanji (4″…   Read more»

]]> 9c39d9d73ba6471939c7215d43ee536a Bob Wood posted a new topic "54mm CTI Al Threaded Forward Closure" - https://dev.ncrocketry.club/about-us/activity/p/1820/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:44:57 -0600 Does anyone out there have a lead on a decent threaded forward closure for CTI 54mm motors. I would like to plug the north end of CTI motors, relying instead on my own avy-bay based deployment, and while I am…   Read more»

]]> f024c39152cf6db2e35cc2d3d4b02b07 Bob Wood started the topic Lost Little John at Rocktoberfest in the forum Lost and Found https://ncrocketry.club/community/topic/lost-little-john-at-rocktoberfest/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:51:28 -0600 4″ Madcow kit.  Olive drab with “US ARMY” decal.  Straight launch until about 4000′, then heeled over into the wind (from the SSE) and disappeared.  Should have gone to ~ 5500′.  Walked the areas North of the flight line both sides of the road past the fence line, and South of the flight line looking for anything that came in ballistic. Grass was…[Read more]

]]> 0 2834f030d22cc44593b8d6a7dcafcafe Bob Wood replied to the topic Lost Kestral in the forum Lost and Found https://ncrocketry.club/community/topic/lost-kestral/#post-73942 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:38:15 -0600 This bird was found last month in just about the exact location I thought it should be, which I had scoured in June.  Amazing how easy it is to find a lost rocket when the grass has dried up and been grazed by cattle.

And yes, most of it was lost due to the impact.  I did verify altitude at 19999 feet.  The flight computer (Marsa 54) was able to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f43ca2186b4bce3d4b38fbaa4bbc3e04 Bob Wood started the topic Lost Kestral in the forum Lost and Found https://ncrocketry.club/community/topic/lost-kestral/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:41:45 -0600 At MHM last month, I believe the air frame did not separate at apogee, and the bird came in hot.  Main deployed at ~ 800′ and the harness failed.  I found the nosecone and main chute about 600 yards South of County Road 122 (Grover Road), almost exactly South by Southeast of the launch site (about 1.6 miles from the pads – I believe it went at l…[Read more]

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